OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between organizational (bonding, bridging, and linking) social capital, employees' health, and employees' performance. METHODS Linear regression on cross-sectional data among 718 employees in two Dutch companies. RESULTS Organizational social capital was significantly associated with perceived health (β = 0.20; P < 0.001) and with emotional exhaustion (...

This paper introduces Social Worlds Theory as an alternative perspective on organizational learning. Social Worlds Theory has close resemblance with the practice perspective on organizational learning but contributes to this tradition by focussing on tensions and conflicts as well as processes of segmentation and intersection as a result of different commitments of social worlds to organization...

How do complex societal demands and time constraints posed by distributed temporary organizing affect organizational communication? Extending Bowker and Star’s (2002) work on infrastructures, we introduce two context-specific ‘invisible’, social infrastructures: organizational and relational. We empirically assess their role in an international, multi-site ERP-software implementation. We invest...

the use of a single research method design can hardly bring to light multiple aspects of a social phenomenon. the interdisciplinary characteristics of organization and management, requires the student of the field to go beyond traditional approaches normally used in social science studies. the researcher has to apply triangulation in order to unmusk many facets of organizational phenomenon. thi...

This study examines the relationship between social media presence and the market value of firms. Using the creation of a Facebook Company page as a social media adoption event, we find that while firms are deriving some positive value from using social media, the effects are heterogeneous. Specifically, we find that social media adoption and use are complementary to “data skills” – the market ...

A hot-issued research topic in the workflow intelligence arena is the emerging topic of “workflow-supported organizational social networks.” These specialized social networks have been proposed to primarily represent the process-driven work-sharing and work-collaborating relationships among the workflow-performers fulfilling a series of workflow-related operations in a workflow-supported organi...

A common, but important issue with large Information Technology (IT) organizations that implement Knowledge Management (KM) strategies is end-user apathy and indifference towards the KM initiative in organizational units. End-user communities associate themselves minimally with the organization-wide KM apparatus, rarely contributing to the initiative, or/and in a few cases completely dissociate...